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Apple’s App Store has hit 40 billion downloads, less than a year afterreaching 25bn downloads back in March.The announcement follows Flurry’s study that showed1.76bn Android and iOS apps were downloaded in the last week of 2012. Apple certainly had a bumper December as the App Store reached 2bn downloads during …
Read More »$8bn – the total losses made by Xbox 360 and PS3
The console sector is at a crossroads, and a look at the numbers behind Xbox 360 and PS3 make for uncomfortable reading. According to numbers presented by former EA and Sony man Ben Cousins on Kotaku, between them Xbox 360 and PS3 have left an $8bn black hole in the …
Read More »The end of era – Sony has produced its last ever PS2
Sony has confirmed that it has ceased all production of the mighty PlayStation 2. It was reported last week that the company had called time on its Japanese production of the console, but Sony has now confirmed to The Guardian that all PS2 production worldwide has been wound down. The …
Read More »3DS passes PS3’s lifetime sales in Japan
And you thought Nintendo’s handheld wasn’t popular? The latest charts data from Media Create shows that in just two years sales of Nintendo’s 3DS have already passed the lifetime sales of Sony’s six year old PS3. PS3’s lifetime Japanese sales stand at 8.7m. Last week 3DS sold 211k units, taking …
Read More »Bigpoint breaks through 300m user barrier
Online games maker Bigpoint has surpassed 300 million registered users. Bigpoint has created online hits, such as Battlestar Galactica Online, Drakensang Online, Farmerama, Pirate Storm and Dark Orbit, amassing communities across the world, connected by its global gaming site Bigpoint.com. In recent years, we’ve seen a rapid increase and unprecedented …
Read More »Tales series hits 15m shipped
Namco Bandai’s popular RPG series Tales has passed the 15m unit shipped milestone. The most recent release Tales of Xillia 2 on PS3 has itself shipped 480,000 units since its Japanese release at the beginning of December. The IP first debuted way back in 1995 when Tales of Phantasia was …
Read More »GTA shipments hit 125m as "special" series continues to grow
And that’s why the industry gets excited, sits up and pays attention when the words ‘Grand Theft Auto’ are uttered. Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick told the Credit Suisse 2012 Technology Conference – as reported by GameSpot – that the series has now shipped 125m units worldwide. Of that total Grand …
Read More »Google Store finally matches up to Apple App Store
One of Apple’s key smartphone marketing advantages has neutralised. Google has stated that there are around 700,000 apps now available for Android devices, meaning that it is now on parity with Apple’s all-conquering App Store according to VentureBeat. Apple announced in September that it had hit the 700,000 app milestone, …
Read More »PS3 smashes through 5m barrier in the UK
EXCLUSIVE:The PlayStation 3 has surpassed 5m consoles sold in the UK, MCV can reveal. The firm reached the milestone as a new-look 500GB PS3 hit the market on September 28th, causing a 138 per cent jump in sales that week. A 12GB SKU is out today (October 12th). And the …
Read More »Lollipop Chainsaw is Grasshopper’s best selling game
The latest release from inventive Japanese studio Grasshopper Manufacture has proved its most successful – but it’s not all good news. The studio’s CEO Yoshimi Yasuda has revealed that 2012 title Lollipop Chainsaw has become its most successful title ever, with global shipments having passed the 700,000 mark, Andriasang reports. …
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